Show us your kitty cats

Owner of five cats- there's one older antagonistic neighbourhood cat from a few doors down. I'm always friendly with it because a) I love cats and b) they wouldn't understand if I intervene but I recently saw one of ours (a meathead in both stance and attitude) walking across our patio to the garden with the antagonist hiding in wait behind a low wall. As soon as ours rounded the corner the neighbour's cat pounced and unleashed a torrent of head-baps, fur-flying everywhere. Then the antagonist legged it, our cat froze in position and looked mildly bemused for a moment then sauntered on like absolutely nothing had happened. I had to stifle a laugh, poor sod! :D

The missus and I are currently in Rhodes, so many street kitties of all shapes and sizes. The locals seem to appreciate and look out for them, they're mostly in decent nick, and the Greeks have a neutering policy (a small clip in the ear shows who's been done) but it must be an uphill struggle. This evening at dinner there were two gorgeous tiny calico girls, both with halftone-print style spots I've never seen before. The wife carries decent food around so fed them, then one of the local kids told us one is the mother of the other, and the offspring is pregnant. I want to find the local charity that deals with them and make a donation.

If I can get the images up to my hosting I'll post a few.
 
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We were feeling the cold here in Scotland the other night so put the log burner on for a few hours to take the chill off.

Ten minutes later Boris fell asleep in front of the fire like this:

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subbytna said:






After months of hinting and wearing down her resolve, the wife caved in and we got two new additions on Sunday. Matilda black and white and Mario tiger tabby :cool:

9 weeks old and already a handful.

After the incident with Alex and the youtube kitten video, I'm not even going to write what happened but it was horrific (thanks again for everyone sending Alex pics of their cats, it really helped him) I'm just delighted to have these two causing havoc in our home. I've been wanting another cat for a couple of years but wife was adamant no, glad we wore her down :D

Not going to lie, when I saw the twins reaction to getting their own kitten each, I shed a tear with them :o
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Mario then......

















Mario now, he's going to be a BIG BOY!!

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Sad news :( Got a phone call this morning on my way to work to say Ernie had been taken into a local vet late last night after being hit by a car, he sadly had passed away. Poor little man was only 9 months old and was really developing into a lovely cat. His brother Bert is looking around for him, they did everything together. I was worried when he wasn't on my bed at 6am with Bert trying and wake me up for their breakfast, they are always there and he didn't come when I went outside and called him, he'd never missed breakfast before. He was so unlucky as our road is super quiet, there are so many cats on our street and this is the first one I know of to get hit by a car. A local veterinary nurse found him and took him to the vets but it was too late. Bit of a gut punch tbh after only losing my cat of 11 years just before Xmas, that broke me as I had an incredible relationship with him. At least he didn't suffer. RIP Ernie, you were such a good boy.

Ernie on the left with Bert.

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Ernie on the right cuddling with our other cat Oscar

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She jumps on my shoulder any chance she gets. If I bend over to do anything (picking up stuff etc) boom...she's launched herself up and on to the shoulder.
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My Abby was the same but I didn't need to be bending down as she used to just climb up with the claws out, damn that was painful. I used to walk into a room that she was in and get confronted with a black and white blur flying through the air as she launches off something to get to me. We developed a bond from the very begining. She was a recue cat from Cat's protection and was 12 weeks old when we got her and was always a tiny cat which became even more obvious when we got our pair of yougsters who rapidly outgrew her by the time they were 6 months old. She was found in the Elgin floods of 2009. Now she is 15 years old and she still climbs up on my shoulder, especially if we are outside and I pick her up for a cuddle. She usually favours one side or the other which forces me to do "the teapot" (hand on my hip as she then lies across my shoulder and upper arm).
 
pastymuncher said:
My Abby was the same but I didn't need to be bending down as she used to just climb up with the claws out, damn that was painful. I used to walk into a room that she was in and get confronted with a black and white blur flying through the air as she launches off something to get to me. We developed a bond from the very begining. She was a recue cat from Cat's protection and was 12 weeks old when we got her and was always a tiny cat which became even more obvious when we got our pair of yougsters who rapidly outgrew her by the time they were 6 months old. She was found in the Elgin floods of 2009. Now she is 15 years old and she still climbs up on my shoulder, especially if we are outside and I pick her up for a cuddle. She usually favours one side or the other which forces me to do "the teapot" (hand on my hip as she then lies across my shoulder and upper arm).
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teapot :D
 
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